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 1        AN ACT to amend the Emergency  Telephone  System  Act  by
 2    changing Section 15.6.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended
 6    by changing Section 15.6 as follows:

 7        (50 ILCS 750/15.6)
 8        Sec. 15.6.  Enhanced 9-1-1 service;  business service.
 9        (a)  After June 30,  2000,  or  within  18  months  after
10    enhanced  9-1-1  service  becomes  available, any entity that
11    installs or operates a private business  switch  service  and
12    provides   telecommunications   facilities   or  services  to
13    businesses shall assure that the system is connected  to  the
14    public  switched  network  in  a  manner  that calls to 9-1-1
15    result in automatic number and location identification.   For
16    buildings  having  their  own  street  address and containing
17    workspace  of  40,000   square   feet   or   less,   location
18    identification  shall  include the building's street address.
19    For buildings having their own street address and  containing
20    workspace   of   more   than  40,000  square  feet,  location
21    identification shall include the  building's  street  address
22    and  one  distinct  location identification per 40,000 square
23    feet of workspace. Separate buildings containing workspace of
24    40,000 square feet or less  having  a  common  public  street
25    address  shall  have  a  distinct location identification for
26    each building in addition to the street address.
27        (b)  Exemptions.  Buildings containing workspace of  more
28    than 40,000 square feet are exempt from the multiple location
29    identification requirements of subsection (a) if the building
30    maintains,  at  all  times, alternative and adequate means of
31    signaling and responding to emergencies.  Those  means  shall
 
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 1    include   a  telephone  system  that  provides  the  physical
 2    location of 9-1-1 calls  coming  from  within  the  building.
 3    Buildings  under  this  exemption  must provide 9-1-1 service
 4    that provides the building's street address.
 5        Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square
 6    feet  are  exempt  from  subsection  (a)  if   the   building
 7    maintains,  at  all  times, alternative and adequate means of
 8    signaling  and  responding  to   emergencies,   including   a
 9    telephone  system  that provides the location of a 9-1-1 call
10    coming from within the building, and the building is serviced
11    by its own medical, fire and security  personnel.   Buildings
12    under  this  exemption  are subject to emergency phone system
13    certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
14        Buildings in communities not serviced by  enhanced  9-1-1
15    service  are  exempt  from  subsection  (a). Private business
16    switch service 9-1-1 service.
17        (a)   After June 30, 1996, an  entity  that  installs  or
18    operates a new private business switch service or replaces an
19    existing   private   business  switch  service  and  provides
20    telecommunications facilities or services to businesses shall
21    provide to those business end users the same level  of  9-1-1
22    service  as  the  public  agency  and  the telecommunications
23    carrier are providing to other  business  end  users  of  the
24    local  9-1-1  system.  This service shall include, but not be
25    limited to, the capability to identify the telephone  number,
26    extension  number,  and  the  physical  location  that is the
27    source of the call to the number designated as the  emergency
28    telephone   number.    After  June  30,  1999,  all  entities
29    providing or operating  a  private  business  switch  service
30    shall be in compliance with this Section.
31        (b)  The  private business switch operator is responsible
32    for forwarding end  user  automatic  location  identification
33    record  information to the 9-1-1 system provider according to
34    the format, frequency, and  procedures  established  by  that
 
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 1    system provider.
 2        (c)  This  Act  does  not  apply  to  any  PBX  telephone
 3    extension  that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical
 4    signals directly between  the  telephone  extension  and  the
 5    serving PBX.
 6        (d)  An  entity that violates this Section is guilty of a
 7    business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000  and
 8    not more than $5,000.
 9        (e)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  to
10    preclude  the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or
11    on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person,
12    from seeking judicial relief,  by  mandamus,  injunction,  or
13    otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section.
14        (f)  The   Commission  shall  promulgate  rules  for  the
15    administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000.
16    
17    (Source: P.A.  88-604,  eff.  9-1-94;  89-222,  eff.  1-1-96;
18    89-497, eff. 6-27-96.)

19        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
20    becoming law.

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